Verse 19
Numbers 31:19
Free Bible Version
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All those of you who killed someone or touched a dead body must stay outside the camp for seven days. Purify yourselves and your prisoners on the third day and the seventh day.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/אַתֶּ֗ם חֲנ֛וּ מִ/ח֥וּץ לַֽ/מַּחֲנֶ֖ה שִׁבְעַ֣ת יָמִ֑ים כֹּל֩ הֹרֵ֨ג נֶ֜פֶשׁ וְ/כֹ֣ל נֹגֵ֣עַ בֶּֽ/חָלָ֗ל תִּֽתְחַטְּא֞וּ בַּ/יּ֤וֹם הַ/שְּׁלִישִׁי֙ וּ/בַ/יּ֣וֹם הַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֔י אַתֶּ֖ם וּ/שְׁבִי/כֶֽם
English Translation
And you shall camp outside the camp for seven days; anyone who kills a person and anyone who touches a dead body shall be unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; you shall purify yourselves.
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Chapter 31 Context
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The Lord told Moses,
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“Punish the Midianites because of what they did to the Israelites. After that you will join your for...
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Moses instructed the people, “Have some of your men get ready for battle, so they can go and attack...
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You are to contribute one thousand men from each Israelite tribe.”
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So one thousand men were chosen from each Israelite tribe, making twelve thousand troops ready for b...
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Moses sent them into battle, one thousand from each tribe, together with Phinehas, son of Eleazar th...
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They attacked the Midianites, as the Lord had told Moses to do, and they killed all the men.
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Among those killed were the five kings of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. They also killed B...
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The Israelites captured the Midianite women and children, and they took as plunder all their herds,...
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They set fire to all the Midianite towns and camps where they had lived,
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and carried away all the plunder and loot, including people and animals.
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They brought the prisoners, loot, and plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the rest of th...
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Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the Israelite leaders went out of the camp to meet them.
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Moses was angry with the army officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, who...
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“Why did you let all the women live?” he asked them.
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“You realize that these were the same women who seduced the Israelite men, leading them to be unfait...
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So go and kill all the boys, and every woman who has slept with a man.
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Let all the girls who are virgins live. They are yours.
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All those of you who killed someone or touched a dead body must stay outside the camp for seven days...
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Also purify all your clothing and anything made of leather, goat's hair, or wood.”
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Eleazar the priest told the soldiers who had gone into battle, “These are the legal regulations that...
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All that's made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—
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anything that doesn't burn—must be put through fire to make it clean. But it still has to be purifie...
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Wash your clothes on the seventh day and you will be clean. Then you can enter the camp.”
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The Lord told Moses,
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“You, Eleazar the priest, and the Israelite family leaders are to take a record of the people and an...
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Take as a contribution to the Lord from what is allocated to the troops who went into battle one out...
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From the Israelites half share, take one out of every fifty people, cattle, donkeys, or sheep, or ot...
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This was the list of plunder remaining that had been looted by the troops: 675,000 sheep,
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72,000 cattle,
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61,000 donkeys,
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and 32,000 virgins.
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This was the half share for those who had gone to fight: 337,500 sheep,
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with a contribution for the Lord of 675,
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36,000 cattle, with a Lord's contribution of 72,
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30,500 donkeys, with a Lord's contribution of 61,
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and 16,000 people, with a Lord's contribution of 32.
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The Israelites' half share left after Moses had given the half share to the troops who had gone to f...
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consisted of: 337,500 sheep,
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36,000 cattle,
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30,500 donkeys,
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and 16,000 people.
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Moses took from the Israelites' half one out of every fifty people and animals and gave them to the...
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The army officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, came to Moses
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and told him, “We, your servants, have checked the troops we command and not a single man is missing...
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So we have brought the Lord an offering of the gold objects each man received—armlets, bracelets, ri...
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The gold that the commanders of thousands and of hundreds gave as an offering to the Lord weighed in...
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(The men who had fought in the battle had each taken plunder for himself.)
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